#Spain plans to send #Patriot missiles and #Leopard tanks to #Ukraine as part of a 1.13 billion euro ($1.23 billion) weapon package announced last month.
Spain will hand over a dozen crucial Patriot anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine and 19 second-hand German-made Leopard 2A4 tanks and other Spanish-made weapons, such as anti-drones gear and ammunition.
Here in #Finland, the last 24 hours have been geopolitically unusual.
Reports from #Russia suggested a unilateral desire to modify their maritime borders in the Gulf of Finland and near #Kaliningrad. The Finnish government learned about this through the media.
Russians now dismantling the buoys separating Estonia from Russia.
A golden era for all enemies of democracy is here.
Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, backed by the resources of a rapidly growing list of African nations is sliding into the power vacuum of a democratic world that refuses to respond even when Ukrainians were willing to do all the fighting.
Estonia's foreign ministry said it had summoned Russia's chargé d'affaires and it was treating the move as a "provocative border incident". It had demanded the "immediate return" of the buoys. It comes after the Russian defense ministry briefly published a proposal to revise its maritime border in the Baltic Sea this week. Russia is a terrorist state. #ArrestPutin
#US and allied intelligence officials are tracking an increase in low-level sabotage operations in Europe that they say are part of a Russian campaign to undermine support for #Ukraine’s war effort.
The covert operations have mostly been arsons or attempted arsons targeting a wide range of sites, including a warehouse in #England, a paint factory in #Poland, homes in #Latvia and, most oddly, an Ikea store in #Lithuania.
"#Ukraine is exposed to an unprovoked and illegal war of aggression by #Russia. According to international law, Ukraine has the right to defend itself by means of hostilities aimed at the territory of the adversary as long as the hostilities comply with the laws of war. Sweden stands behind international law and Ukraine's right to defend itself.”
The #Vladivostok-based travel agency Vostok Intour is negotiating with partners from North Korea to send Russian schoolchildren to the Sondowon children's camp for the summer holidays.
A Russian who, as a teenager, visited Sondowon twice in 2015–2016, told, that the camp was accompanied by severe restrictions on movement and daily propaganda activities in which children were forced to sing songs in honor of Korean leaders and clean their monuments.
#Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia #Meloni reiterated Sunday her opposition to the use of weapons supplied to #Ukraine on #Russia soil, after the #NATO chief reportedly suggested letting #Kyiv strike targets beyond its border.
"I don't know why #Stoltenberg said such a thing, I think we have to be very careful," Meloni told Italian television, while adding that "I agree that NATO must remain firm, not give the signal that it is giving in."
#Russia is producing artillery shells around three times faster than #Ukraine's Western allies and for about a quarter of the cost.
The research on artillery rounds by Bain & Company, which drew on publicly available information, found that Russian factories were forecast to manufacture or refurbish about 4.5 million artillery shells this year compared with a combined production of about 1.3 million rounds across European nations and the #US.
Chancellor Olaf #Scholz currently sees no reason to expand the area of application of Western weapons in the war in #Ukraine.
The Chancellor rejected calls for the weapons supplied to be used on Russian territory. There are “clear rules that have been agreed with Ukraine and that work” for German arms deliveries, he said. “That’s my theory anyway,” he added. The goal of his Ukraine policy is to "prevent it from becoming a big war."
Today marks 10 years since the first battle for the Donetsk International Airport. 10 years since the last passenger flights from there. 10 years since the story of "Cyborgs" began. Ukraine needs safe skies, Ukraine needs additional air defense systems. #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#Ukraine#Russia